The holidays are always a fun and interesting time of year, and what they do to web analytics is no different. Rising above the web industry trend of around 30%-40% web traffic decrease for the month of December, wonderfulmachine.com only saw about a 12% drop in our numbers overall with 14,877 sessions this month, and 53,665 page views. Our average session length also stayed steady at 4-minutes and 12 seconds, which puts us at the second month in a row over the 4-minute mark.
Check out the December overview below:
As usual, our views by location show the U.S. as the leader with 9,781. We reported last month on our strange case with the election-based bot interfering, making it seem as though Russia ranked second for most searched from location. However, the numbers have dropped significantly, and we are just seeing the tail end of those session views being filtered out. Therefore, the U.K. holds true for the second most session with 610, and Canada third with 553.
December also brought us 12,240 profile page views, which means our photographers averaged between 17-18 views each. Our photographers also received a total of 4,783 click-throughs to their individual websites, averaging 7 clicks each. Denmark-based beauty and fashion photographer Jonas Jensen had the most to his site, with 33 clicks. A tight second and third were food and drink photographer Ted Axelrod with 27, and New York City-based portraiture and conceptual photographer duo HollenderX2 with 24.
Here are the top ten below:
Even though we may have seen an overall holiday slump, our Wonderful Machine Blog certainly didn’t! With 7,125 views, we actually increased our views from November. We also saw tears coming up in the top ten from Durham-based portraiture and fashion photographer Jillian Clark and Greensboro-based food and drink photographer Dhanraj Emanuel, likely due to their strong social media sharing and participation.
Check out the top ten most viewed blogs this month below:
If you missed any of the photographer news this month, you can always catch up on the blog! As always, make sure to share your projects with us so that we can consider them for a blog – and fill us in on recent tears, too! Check out our top stories that came out in December:
That’s all for December!
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